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Nate Crowley arrives in print!

9 months ago- posted by Rob Power

Due to overwhelming demand, Abaddon is proud to announce that the fantastical fiction of Nate "Frog Croakley" Crowley is finally coming to print with The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack.

Collecting Nate's superb novellas The Sea Hates a Coward and Grand Amazon in one handy tome, The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack will be available from all good retailers - and some not so good, probably - on 8 August 2017.

The eBook version is available for pre-order now, and the print version will pop up online shortly, so do go and grab your copy of one of the wildest, weirdest, and most wonderful stories we've ever published...

The Death and Life of Schneider WrackBy Nate Crowley

Schneider Wrack was dead. Until he wasn't.

Convicted of a crime he's almost completely sure he didn't commit, executed, reanimated, then pressed into service aboard a vast trawler on the terrible world of Ocean, he was set to spend his afterlife working until his mindless corpse falls apart.

But now he's woken up, trapped in a rotting body, arm-deep in the stinking meat and blubber of a sea monster, and he's not happy. It's time for the dead to rise up.

From the stench and brine of Ocean to the fetid jungle of Grand Amazon, Schneider's career as a revolutionary won't be easy. But sometimes a zombie's gotta do what a zombie's gotta do...

PRAISE FOR NATE CROWLEY

'Genius' - Dara Ó Briain

'Weird and hilarious' - Buzzfeed

'Surreal and occasionally horrifying' - The Daily Dot

The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack is available for pre-order now!Buy: Amazon UK|Amazon US

Nate Crowley returns to Abaddon with Grand Amazon!

1 year ago- posted by Rob Power

Nate Crowley, the acclaimed author of 2015 Abaddon novella The Sea Hates A Coward, returns to the Tomes of the Dead series this summer with a gut-churning sequel: Tomes of the Dead: Grand Amazon.

After signing to Abaddon in the wake of his now infamous Twitter saga Daniel Barker’s Birthday (as reported on Buzzfeed), Crowley’s singular voice quickly marked him out as one of Abaddon’s most exciting – and peculiar – new authors.

In The Sea Hates A Coward, Crowley took us on an unforgettably grim voyage. Now Grand Amazon moves the action – and our hero, the dead convict turned revolutionary turned weird-preserved-monster-brain Schneider Wrack - from the sea to the jungle, in a tale that oozes dark humour and lip-smacking wordsmithery.

David Thomas Moore, Commissioning Editor for Abaddon Books, said:

“The Sea Hates A Coward was one of the most delightful surprises of 2015, a mad, careening tale of revenge, rebellion, existential dread and chthonic horror – and more synonyms for rotting blubber than I’m entirely comfortable with. Nate’s no less of a delight, a gregarious, self-effacing and profoundly creative soul with a distinctly crooked imagination. It’s wonderful to be inviting the fierce, sad, strange Wrack and Mouana to continue telling their stories.”

Author Nate Crowley said,

“Readers told me they left The Sea Hates A Coward wanting to know more about the world behind it, and this book will deliver relentlessly on that front. As well as learning more about the execution victims who drove the action in book one, we’re going to encounter the state that made them – and its ruthless enemies. And while the mood of TSHAC was all about oceanic horror, Grand Amazon is a jungle story, full of the maddening fecundity of the tropics. I’m gleeful at Abaddon giving me free rein to keep playing with this lovely nightmare (they’re a good publisher like that), and I can’t wait to get the book out. So pack your bug spray, and I’ll see you there.”

Tomes of the Dead: Grand Amazon by Nate Crowley is out on 19 August 2016.

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Tomes of the Dead: Grand Amazon By Nate Crowley

What do you live for if you’re dead?

For Schneider Wrack, a rebel made into a monster, it’s freedom, and the chance of understanding who he once was. For Mouana, an executed soldier made into a slave, it’s justice. A world-shaking revolt has given them charge of the titanic whaling ship that was their prison, and now it’s steaming towards the city that killed them.

Mouana wants more than revenge – she’s out to destroy the grim technology that enslaved her and thousands of her comrades. But it’s a lot harder to kill an idea than a person, and this idea has deep roots.

It’ll bring them into conflict with terrifying powers, test the limits of their failing bodies, and take them far from the worlds of their birth, to the measureless wilderness known only as Grand Amazon.

Happy publication day The Sea Hates A Coward!

2 years ago- posted by Rob Power

Brace yourselves, maties, for today is the day that The Sea Hates A Coward, Nate Crowley's unholy voyage into the realms of the undead, is unleashed upon an unsuspected public (that's you, FYI).

We discovered Nate via the saga of Daniel Barker's birthday (full, incredible details here), and his debut novella for Abaddon is a thing of very real genius.

Set on a whaling ship crewed by the living dead (because of course it is), The Sea Hates A Coward charts the fall and rise of Schneider Wrack, a dead man whose conciousness returns to him on a hellish distant sea.

We can guarantee Nate's novella is every bit as disgustingly brilliant as his twitter fiction, and we can't wait for you to read it. Once you have, why not head over to Amazon and leave a review? It'll warm the icy fist of flesh that sits where Nate's heart once was, which can only be a good thing.